Chapter 24: The Dao Scripture
Chapter 24: The Dao Scripture
Lin Yuan sneered coldly. Today, even if it meant risking the destruction of this Heavenly Mansion Jade Book, he would forcibly take it into his hand to get a glimpse of the Mystic Gate Immortal Path’s mysteries.
With a sweep of his wide sleeve, Lin Yuan’s Innate Magical Power surged out like a torrent.
Golden clouds and red flames filled the entire tomb’s stone hall. Following Lin Yuan’s will, the golden clouds and red flames contracted, instantly forming a net that caught the fleeing golden stream of light.
The golden clouds and red flames it contained suppressed a tiny spark of spiritual light within the Celestial Book!
“Audacious!!”
A roar of anger seemed to come faintly from within the spiritual light, like a colorless thunderclap powerful enough to scatter a Primordial Spirit.
BOOM!!
Lin Yuan felt the sky and earth instantly darken. The golden clouds and red flames erupting from the Merit Golden Lamp in his palm nearly scattered. His soul felt like it would explode. But in that instant, the Innate Twenty-Four Dao Diagrams in his mind bloomed with radiance, blocking that terrifying colorless thunderclap.
But it stopped there.
Seeing that Lin Yuan’s body hadn’t even swayed a bit, that spark of sentience was greatly shocked and was about to speak.
BOOM!!
A vast golden thunderbolt suddenly erupted as Lin Yuan pointed.
“You, Innate…”
The horrified voice was abruptly cut off.
The Celestial Book immediately stopped struggling!
Having casually extinguished this spark of the Celestial Book’s sentience, Lin Yuan raised his head, his brow instantly tightly furrowed.
The golden radiance on the Celestial Book was slowly fading.
“It seems I was still a step too late. That spark of sentience damaged its inheritance mechanism!”
Muttering to himself, a trace of helplessness flashed in Lin Yuan’s eyes.
This journey to the Primordial World had undoubtedly greatly increased his comprehension of innate mysteries.
His Innate Thunder Method was especially extraordinary, and his Innate Dao Body was almost fully developed.
While the Innate Thunder Method was indeed powerful, the connection between the Celestial Book and the spark of sentience born from it was too close. Before it was destroyed, that spark of sentience still managed to activate the book’s restrictions.
The fact that this Celestial Book wasn’t destroyed on the spot was only because he acted swiftly.
With a beckoning gesture, a jade book appeared before Lin Yuan’s eyes.
Faint golden light lingered on the jade book. One could still see scattered ancient tadpole-shaped seal script characters and shapes of cloud dragons and strange birds.
This was the Celestial Book’s ancient seal script. Now, this true inheritance was vanishing.
In its place was an ancient jade book.
It was apparent that this Celestial Book’s true form might have been an ordinary ancient jade book.
This was an ancient scripture, within which flowed strange, thread-like traces of Dao nature!
“Primordial Yang Dao Scripture?”
Seeing the opening words, Lin Yuan’s expression turned rather disappointed.
It was said the Primordial Yang Dao Scripture was created by the Primordial Yang Dao Ancestor. In Main World mythology, the Primordial Yang Dao Ancestor was the manifestation of the Innate Primordial Unity’s Primordial Qi, the origin of the Mystic Gate. By Lin Yuan’s understanding, this was probably a Primordial Chaos Sage who had already attained Primordial Origin!
Too many legends existed. Lin Yuan wasn’t entirely clear.
But the Primordial Yang Dao Scripture was widely circulated. Lin Yuan had read it before; it was indeed the supreme classic of the Mystic Gate.
It was said this scripture was a moral chapter passed down by the Primordial Yang Dao Ancestor, meant to civilize the world!
Upon closer inspection, however, Lin Yuan’s gaze held a trace of surprise. This “Primordial Yang Dao Scripture” was not the same version as the one circulating in Great Zhou.
“Could this be the ancient true version?”
Lin Yuan’s eyes shimmered with barely contained excitement.
It was said the “Primordial Yang Dao Scripture” held another divine mystery; it could not be passed down orally. Many former sages had only preserved a bit of its true intent from memory, each recording or describing it orally. But over too many years and generations of inheritance, the true moral essence was lost.
Upon careful study, however, Lin Yuan’s expression calmed down. Although this Heavenly Mansion Jade Book contained a strand of extremely pure Dao rhythm inheritance, it probably wasn’t the true version.
Rather, it was a hand-copied version by some ancient Immortal who had seen a reproduction or a copy.
A strange light flashed in Lin Yuan’s eyes. Even a reproduction that had already been copied several times was extremely precious.
A single strand of its Dao rhythm was enough to stir up great commotion among many major cultivators!
In Lin Yuan’s view, this strand of pure Dao rhythm was far more valuable than the so-called ancient Celestial Book.
If he could use it to glimpse a thread of Immortal truth, he might achieve great things in the Primordial World.
Lin Yuan instantly felt much better. Even looking at the numerous Daoists on the ground, his killing intent dissipated. He immediately paid them no more mind, took the Heavenly Mansion Jade Book, gathered the Merit Golden Lamp, and transformed into a streak of light that quietly vanished.
Not long after Lin Yuan left, the Daoists of Longze Dao Academy woke up from their daze. After a moment looking at the horrifying scene around them and the charred corpse on the ground, they looked at each other, speechless.
Liu Ling… this key figure deemed a seed of resurgence by many Dharma Lineage masters, even designated as such by one particular Dharma Lineage… was just dead like this?
The group felt both astonishment and absurdity!
He hadn’t even begun his Dao Attainment journey yet!
This was probably going to cause an uproar!
“Junior Sister Yuan, what do we do now?”
One of the Daoists looked at the female Daoist.
Among them, whether by status or cultivation level, this female Daoist was the foremost.
The female Daoist’s gaze fell on the charred corpse, her expression somewhat speechless. Seeing this, another Daoist next to her waved his hand.
“Forget it. This matter is beyond our control now. We’d better report it to our superiors as soon as possible!”
“Liu Ling is dead. Will that Dharma Lineage let it rest?!”
“Indeed. We shouldn’t wade into this muddy water any further!”
“Right. The Dao Academy’s Dragon Gate trial is about to open. I heard there are many disciples with superior bone structure this time who need our screening. It’s better we leave early!”
“Let’s go, let’s go!”
…
They avoided the place like it was infested.
The female Daoist, Yuan Youfang, looked at the expressions of her fellow Daoists and the charred corpse on the ground, secretly sighing softly. A favorable situation had been ruined in an instant. They hadn’t even caught a glimpse of their opponent’s shadow.
But in her heart, the female Daoist secretly vowed to investigate the truth of this matter in the future.
In the Fox Den.
Hu Rui’s face was filled with anger. Looking at the old woman, he almost ground his teeth as he said, “Mother, this must be Lin Yuan’s doing. At the very least, Young Master Liu’s death is connected to him. We can’t just stand by!”
“And what do you want to do?” On the cloud bed, the old woman looked coldly at her offspring.
A faint red light flickered in Hu Rui’s eyes, like a gambler who had lost. Black qi coiled around his brow. “With Liu Ling dead, that Dharma Lineage will definitely send someone to investigate. We just need to faithfully report everything we know…”
A sinister gleam flashed in his eyes, a greenish light shimmering within!
With the six hundred-year Heavenly Tribulation approaching, Hu Rui had originally pinned his hopes on Liu Ling. Now, with Liu Ling dead, all hope was gone. Hu Rui could hardly control his vicious temper anymore.
“Do you think that fifth young master of the Lin Family didn’t anticipate this?” The old woman sneered at the younger man, casually waving her hand to send out a faint gray light that settled in the air.
“See for yourself!”
It was a small gray banner.
Hu Rui recognized it as the Xiaowu Mountain branch’s ancestral-defending Magical Artifact, the Dust-Concealing Banner.
But now, a thread of golden lightning lingered on the Dust-Concealing Banner.
Seeing this thread of golden lightning, Hu Rui’s face changed dramatically. He nearly collapsed on the spot, letting out a shriek under the lightning.
“This lightning…”
Seeing this, the old woman snorted coldly. Yet even her gaze, fixed on that hair-thin thread of golden lightning, was also filled with unconcealed apprehension.
With her cultivation and power as a Yin Spirit True Lord, facing this hair-thin thread of golden lightning still made her scalp tingle.
The other party’s meaning was clear: dare to talk nonsense, and it would be self-destruction!
Though resentful in her heart, the old woman had to admit that this time, Xiaowu Mountain had completely misjudged. Who would have thought the fifth young master of Lin Manor possessed such power and cultivation!
Such a figure, once he truly entered the Dao Academy… a trace of regret quietly grew in the old woman’s heart.